I've been a fan of the old Rupps all my life. Before my time, my great uncle owned the dealership in town. We have 3 snowmobiles. I just discovered today that Rupp used to make mini bikes, go karts, & 4 wheelers too! My co-worker has a Rupp Go-Joe 4 wheeler. They might have been the 1st 4 wheeler ever made. A quick google search revealed this great article. Rupps were a big thing in this area back in the day, at least the snowmobiles. I'm thinking about parting with our sleds, & was talking about it at work and figured out 1 guy has the 4 wheeler & another has the mini bike. Imagine going 55 on this 4 wheeler

https://www.bike-urious.com/1970-rupp-go-joe/

I remember the Rupp snowmachines.They won a few races if my memory is correct.
Werent around long though-I think they were gone by the late 70's.
Late 60's early 70's there were a ton of different companys making snowmachines.

I had a square little Rupp mini bike as kid, it was fast

back in the 70s, a couple buddies had the rupp mini bikes, and i had a speedway. the rupps were 2 1/2 horse, and my speedway was a 4 horse. i think rupp mae a 4 horse also in a slightly more spendy model. good times.

Used to have a rupp go-kart.

My family had the 340 sport, 340 nitro, and the 440 nitro. Lots of great memories made on the river here and surrounding hills.

Neighbor kid had a Rupp sled, we had a Snowjet back in the mid 70's.

I had a rupp and a speedway,rupps were faster. My dad sold mickey rupp the steel to make those things. Main company was in mansfield ohio. They also had gorman rupp that made pumps. Still in business I think. Mickey Rupp last I knew(a few yrs ago)lived in Florida and was always into racing.
Just found this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Rupp

I'd sure love to have that Now^^^

yup Scott,,the roadsters were fast.....had great torque converters. The scramblers were fast too.

That one above was way bigger than my Rupp mini bike

just for you Scott.......
https://www.google.com/search?q=rup...59j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

This was like the one Dad bought me.

Thanks WRR

They just got better and better over the yrs. back in those days they were fast and had the best torque converter available. They changed the whole mini bike thing from jack shafts to automatic transmissions(torque converters)

I drove mine between the studs on our neighbors Garage

Front end anyway

Fun times for sure!

We all lived

Barely!!! But then that was the fun of it huh?

Absolutely...trying to be Evil K.

Absolutely...trying to be Evil K. [/quote]
Probably a good thing we werent neighbors!!!!